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I 3 4 r 1 | j um EUROPEAN UNDER MARSH WASHINGTON, .Western,Europe's .i made important Btii Morshall Plan, the joint congressional < economic cooperation ported today. i. Bttt it is “difficult ;t& to what extent the ments to date “r unification of W' the staff report sal Senator Smith < committee chairmi ])drt will bn Used by the Joint sen at making Its own re: on the nation's mi foreign spending pro H ~wp)|4 i| E I’mine' mplisT n; •rk sh< i p li ongn s n- dol a| .1,200 ESTIMATE IN CHINA SHIP SHANGHAI SION oiiAi'tunnik'i^wii, MQlie than 8,200 Chinese were istimkM dead or missing U|«fp||tTih the explosion*of an overermvded re fugee ship in the Yun ' *“ ‘ Lack of passenger possibly only the twji. The exact toll never wi Even approximate accuracy, however, ranks the disaster, as the greatest in modem maritime his tory, including Bingle^ship casual ties of major wart, Jj The 2,099-ton steamejRlang sailed from Shanghai. ’Etiday Ninghsien (Ningpo), ' 200J n down the coast. It exploded nbc 10 p. m. Friday •aW*J!i»kjwitl an hour, all availably purvivi agreed. Cause of the exp.losib] * not known. Guessw fiWffef' Communist sabotage t<r a floati mine or possibly oyertixed boilers. The loss was not dispeyer Saturday niorhingi! mss water. ■ill mg ! AUTO INDUSTRY] IN HIGH GEAR A DETROIT, Dec. 6 Tl auto industry got bafck dnto hig production ground ngain this ;Week eiCWey- modhl ' M '!• f Volume 4: l •il 1 : ■! a- '.1 _ ■i : [- i ' ‘ ! . i '. ■ I vlh . V 4 . i ' til : ■ ■ ■ ■ v.! ' ' i 1 • , ■ r t j| ..r i i ] l ' " • i' ;■ I Battalion ED mr THE INTEREST OF A GREATER AM COLLEGE >N (Aggieland), TEXAS MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948 ; ^ j ' I. ^ i Mfet . ; 1 ' 1 ’ I ! I;. i ' Il ' , ' III:- Rm r '!"":■' >' i ill - : kr ■ !J§ iff COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS MONDAY, DECEMBER G, 1948 tiiv? The 14BLODY MAIDS, Beaumont choral group, entertained a group of more than a thousand Aggies Saturday night in Guion Hall with popular and traditional songs. despite the closing of s rolet assembly lines |foi change-over. United States factorie* built Bp proximately 118,000 S‘£ars and trucks. Ward's Automotive reports estimated the total uti. iis,974 li't- hicles; automotive neWf, put the figure at 117,959, Lnsfe WeeL With a holiday and soma rntt^al ahhrlt ageu intermpting nsseinbl about 83,000 ears phdvfeic' built in the United{ , , This week’s Iholullfd ele, Most detallrt ttfUiVi ei» turaidy Imw jbrB mUI A,.......,.0..^ Mlt'.HMly I Old y liAvc. to tiitme are; ilihj ugh Htili to Wit role! and j'ontltu'j tii|i|! fhmauy lulmUw niaam bid □41 tflL r feffi uijiliili , /il ^ a vw Ihei’e will he pt'ev|e\ve ; :i mol Indtmtry dirofiL,. inihlle |ir«nentMtlifft. M\ iiiaili htitif Jmi, iWl|o (leneirtl Mtttort will m plete allowing of Wl lff:!to*l at the Whldorf.A»M.#45 York, JI| 14# mm ; l? HEARCH FOR PLAN!# REACH EH 1,01 I HI A NA w HOUSTON, Dee,'; <i||A*I^W n nlr search for a prlVate]Mane, m h sing since November ift,; is toi ' extemjed into. LoiiMid|ilii]i Cupt. James E. NelBdtt, air rescue unit offieeh at 'Ellin’ Field, today said fbd Search be extended, weiltipe||plrmltt] to include an area fjeuiulod Waco, Houston, tluvr.flqlf C New Orleans and ShpfV^port. i Occupants of the Diane atelho- lieved to have been Mri and Mrs. Warren W. York, an&ifcheir pslot, Joel Ritter, all of ,Allentown) fa. Nelson, stationed at Biggs Fieid, El Paso, is directing Ittie search from Ellington FieldJIipar Hous ton- , m ill ' fj 1 The plane was enrbute fhom Mineral Wells, TBkaSg .tb; NejvJOr- le8nS * _^L POLICE SEARCH'FOR WOULD-BE KILLER vi 1 MANHATTAN,IKii Dec.?6--. <A*)—Kansas officers ‘today hAjtited a soldier who was quoted as sS'ihg he was headed for TejkBs to mil a ^°They wanted him o^ijcHarie of kidnaping Mrs. Harrison' K. J^krk, wife of a Kansas State J|fege student, late Wedensday n’ Sheriff B. E. Decltort sd^Vlrs. Clark related that thp manTBi'ced her at the point Of a-kpife to get her car. After she, ^4 the tank fave go On Today ! it Tighthearted History’ Opens 1949 Aggie Calender Edition C. C. MUNROE “This jin tojo close to tho^l sa loons at’ fjrypn. We'll haV^To go further ou With those ajords a group of ''eias legbdatorfi moved f ‘furthor o it’! and then staked out what is new the alto of AAM. Than# Bttirtttfe introdaoo ‘!At* •A" a ‘'liglitbsarted at makes up the fjrst portion of the 1949 Aggie calender which goes on sale today to the student body. Sponsored by ihe tienjor class and the office of atudunt! activities, this year’s caL ender is a radical change frank the flrtt desk tyjie calender pub- liahed last year. • r 3 ! > t • i j [ .,• r Krpuv Uw photograph of a color guard cjh the front ufj the umrimn ^ , . „ f will japtMiar in Guion Hall Tuesday night, This will he n Town Hall perforraa ted, 1 ^ : •f Prairie View Has bay Of Glory f By VICK L1NDLEY home in a taxi. filled with gasoline,'ftffmftn ga her a dollar and tol|j|ier to.' It ■ t>*g UB, 7:00 al Ehgl- What’8 AMATEUR p. m., Mend . neering Bulldihi COMPOSITE . m., Thuraday, | , i Room. 7 , _ ; , GEOLOGY CLWB|| Petroleum LecturV Rw NEWMAN Cl#[iitlnrff:l5 p.m., Monday, C.I5, tjdifMiru jU>om, SAM WIVES, fiflpim. ,l|uou. day, YMCA. J S {■ j SAN ANTONI^ (im l>. Wedneatlay, |oe«l|MS) Aca- 7:30 p. Lecture M] m., demlc Building. ; jf|{g SPANISH CL # ^ p.m .•to . I., Tuesday, Academic Bldg., pi horn, neW, menihSl VOLLEYBALL\< m., Monday, Lii San Antonio will ...WACO - McLl CLUB, 7:80 p.m,, 801. S-wdvita H»u. . Hii IL. .it ting fTiOO ‘ m 128, MLbng- Ited.' 7:30 p. trip to |cu*«et COUNTY 1 r, Room II n: M- Theie [is another A&M eollege in Texas, situated about 50 miles dWn the SP tracks from College Station. Praitie View A&Mj, land-grant college for Texas Negroes, a member school ol tlhe Texas A&M System, had its: big day of glory last Friday, when Dr. E. B. Evansi was inaugurated as first presiieBt of the school. (Pre-+"7—!—; zrz sIS'/SaiT” have b " Aggie Players will As stocl y 5)r. Evans, in cap and —! i I gown, reci(ivbd inaugural congrat ulations ft onji Gibb Gilchrist, chan cellor of the tsystem, news cameras flashed and newsreel cameras whirred. Maby of the cameras be longed to State newspapers and national syndicates; others, includ ing the nejwstreel machines, belong ed to the Negro press, which sent represen ta|ti\fes from as far away as Chicagjo and Pittsburgh. Dr. F.|D! Patterson, president of Tusk degee Institute and a former pupil of Dr. Evans at Prairie View, was principal speaker at the inauguration. “llie tiine will come when all Anvericar educational institutions will admit’students without re gards to race,” he said. “But that da) is not yet When it aUomiea, such strong institutions as Pralr e iVlew will be needed to carry Ihe increasing load.” Dr. Evil# in accepting the re- aponaibillty ‘as president, pledged himwlf! t> i policy of '^animated moderutio i-for #00 one hand, flind OtW.” | a Ur, IE\ alia, though first presi dent of Plalrle View, is eighth head of t|e Inatltution, which wait lout dcid in 1876 and liecame part Of AjtM In 1879. His Im mediate predecessor W. R. Banks who retired in 1946, was among those jpart#patJing in the inau- *The mew \president, who grew up ih Galveston, has been at Prai rie View since shortly after his graduation as a doctor of veteri ^Owshlb on the leadership on the Hear Committee Report Tonight Tlje Key Committee will report on members who will be eligible for keys for their past Work at al meeting of the Aggie! Players to night at 7:15 in the Assembly Hall J. Howard Davis, president, has annnuijcod. At this meeting is also schedul ed a resume of the Players’ last production, “The Little Foxes,” Dayjs said. A club party to be Held latof ip the week will be announ ced, 1 [The proposed club banquet at the end of this semester will be discUsMed. A new outline has been set up on eligibility for keys, Davis said: in explaining that the club must Op- prove jt before it cart be put into action. ! . -S'-f M College Station Leads 1° Recent Health ifsp Pike to Discuss Copeland’s Confectioner) Leinl Prnhlems Of 90.6 is Average fori Local jEsts Wh : — Nuilnber 89 w in Pike to Discuss Problems Of Atomic Energy Dr. Sumner T. Pike, one of the five members of the Atomic Energy Commission, will address the faculty and graduate students this even ing in' the Physics Lecture Room at 8 o’clock. The sub ject of Dr. Pike’s address will be “Problems ;n the Field of Atomic Energy.” Dr. Pike was appointed by the president of the United States to the Atomic Energy Commission. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geolo gists, American Statistical ‘Asso ciation, and American Geological Society. ■F In addition to his wide experi ence in the fields of engineering and economics, Dr. Pike was vice- president of the Equipment Sales Company in Dallas. He served as financial employee and secretary of the Continental Insurance Com pany from 1923 to 1928. From 1928 to 1938 he served as vice-president £ • $ -fVS is With Copeland’s Confed 90.6 is Average for Lo College Station has become the first Texas City to ntiain a bo under the United States Public Health Service Eating and Drinkin according to J. F. Lackey, Director of the Bureau of Food Department. ' | ‘ i Survey officers of the State Health Departm i t i! w Tau Beta Pi To Hold Initiation ‘ j Here Wednesday Eighty undergraduates and two graduates will [ become miembers of ,Tau Beta ;Pi, Tex as Delta, Wednesday inight at 5:30 in Sbisa Hall. The A&M Chapter will be holding its second initiation and banquet of the current semester, but this marks the first time that the society has taken in new members since its installation here last October. Special permission granting a second election was obtained from . National Headquarters when the and director of Case, Pomeroy, and Chapter’s officers and faculty ad- , raw idne, frbm ft** * rf [State Announcement*’ Deadline Set • i « • r • i» t The orclrrs artnmii deadline for aubmltting for January graduation tnouncemcnta la Decamber 16. Grady Elms, aMlatant director of Student Activities, announ ced thin morning. | "No orders will be accepted after that day,” Elms natd. Students who are graduating in January may turn their orders In to Student ActivittM, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. I leather covet! to the address book in the back, the 1949 edition is nojc only u handy reminder pad, but a “book” that ivery Aggie, past and present, will want to read. The first Il5 pages are devoted to “Aggielajnd Forever," and as u history at A&M the atory by Wlrk Van Kmivenhoven conden- sea all the pnownd and fwy'* of the college’* wild oast Into What is almost required reading. The story inrludes the hlghspol* of many of Ihe traditions of Ihe school, and gives lillle known Dirts of some of Ihe more ”lrou> hied" limes which SAM has known, Il Is written In a atyle that wan’l lei the reader pill It down until Ihe final Irlhute to A&M graduates, Each |>Age of Ihe history la dccorntril with a photograph aft some ilhase of college life, Hind ij sketch accompanies each hit of hlstoryj The calender' section la n com plete change from last year's pub lication. Printed in bright maroon, iriich day has a apace for making notes, And the entire section is laid out in an nttructive ami use ful way that makes it much daaier to locate particular days than ihe 1948 calender afforded. The entire calender is hound in maroorii leather, and on the cover is a large Kodachrowe photograph of a color guard. The Academic Building serves as a background for the colorful scene. The I insert containing the his tory and the calender pages is not bound to the cover, but is attached with ai combination loose leaf and spiril binding. Proceeds from the sale of the 1949 Aggie calender will go to the Senior Class and to student activities. It is being sold in the corps area by company comman ders on a non-commission basis. Commission jobs in the non corps area are available first to the corps seniors who are selling without commission in their own outfits and then to any student who Wants the job. The four corps seniors selling the moat calenders will be given prizes of $50, $25, $15, and $10 dollars. Half of the prize money will go to the company fund of the salesman, and half will go to the man selling the calenders. Sales at the annex will be made Monday night by corps seniors on a volurtteev basis, while day stu dents Nvho are not contacted by salesman may buy their copies at the student’ activities office. Several A^M Mother’s Clubs have ordered copies of the 1949 calender for gifts, and already or ders are being received from Ag gies throughout the country and even from overseas for copies. The price of the calender)* this year has been sat at $1.60, After the sales are made by regular salesmen, they will be placed at George's and Casey’s and In the Kxchange Store for the benefit of those men who wish to buy extra copies. to- A canvass of faculty offices will bo made by salesmen to make the calender available to any of the school staff that wishes to buy one. Don Kasper, president of the Senior Class, and Roy Blantoi social secretary, are in charge sales, . \ .]■ Company in New York. Dr. Pike has also served as ad visor to the U. Si Secretary of Commerce and as director of the Fuel Price Division of the OPA. The Graduate School and the Sigma Xi Club are jointly sponsor ing the lecture. Senate fill Meet To Discuss Change Of Longhorn Name speelkl mooting Tlmt'sdny to ills- etiMS a iHiHstblo elllttlgo of T!u> Thp MUnlenl Honste will hoys s ng iHhi Longhorn'* name, Ohsrlos Kirk' ham, proslikmt of tho Hotmto, lots oommncotl, Notmiors hnvo born roquoslod by Ktrkham lo poll nt least 20 por cent of their dormitory or area with a minimum of 60 people con tacted to dolormlmt Hindoo! Body opinion, He requested nlso that the sen ators ask those who are in favor of a name change to give u list of suggested names to the senators. Kirkhnm urged nil students to make a point of expressing their sentiment to their senators so the senators would know what to do. The Student Senate, will express its opinion on the matter in the form of a recommeridation to the Student Life Committee. , 3 visors deemed jt necessary. The move was made to honor the large number of eligible graduating sen iors. j; „ Initiates will be required to re port to the south steps of Sbisa Hall at 5 p.m. Wednesday for in structions on the initiation which i» to begin at 6:30. Following this ceremony, the banquet will be held in the banquet room of Sbisa Hall, beginning at 0:30 p.m. Members may bring guests to the banquet. Dean of Engineering H. W, Bar- low, Indiana Alpha 10117, will of- f«r the welcoming address, ami Dr, U, d. Campbell, former H<wd of ihe Department of Modern Lan guages at AiV M will deliver the prluclpsl address of Ihe evening, Oilman to Address Geology Club CurMon D, Hpeed, dr., '2rt, pres ident of the Hpeed Oil CumuAny, will speak at a meeting of the Geology Club Tuesday night at 7:30 In the Petroleum Lectura Room, Herbert Davis, vice-presi dent of the club, announced. Speed received u degree In ge ology at A&M and has gained wide experience with the Plymouth Oil Company and the Petroleum De velopment Committee in Washing ton D. C., Davis said. Davis stated that Speed’s topic would be “Foreign versus Domes tic Development." He asked that all seniors be present since this subject is of vital interest to them. ent made and Drugrt ol ■B !— "Jr 1 I I p DR. SUMNER T. PIKE of the Atomic Energy Commission will discuss "Problems in the Field of Atomic Energy" here Dei- cember 6. Mayor Langford To Attend [ City Officials’ Meet Mayor Ernest Latigrord of Col- lege station will ntTeiw a meet ing in Houston next Thursday, eiil- led by Mayor Oscar UolroinW, Mayor Holcombe has (iskwli tbe mayors and city orflriius bf this ,t|irt of the stale In meat: Wltli an inftiectic|n i laevi ovim that t rating ing pstn )liBhnienbS£o atfd in College Stitt Iowa: copdj ndji [k* 1 Black?* PHarm; Whiti W«: Csmpr 1 *- r Model 5^ Cam Afgi Sua Api Smitt Aggi Diim The Li_. Pop Nita’i .. . tM H, is a rgcommend tabl'ish»g flti; ndq eating sl id drinki The City of Col adoptedi this cod* nance ind thu Bi of the College hd tary code Which :i Hehtinl i fuat\ijre8 Health: iService 0 1 Rei^lsr^ontl are ntadebe e by of thff Ttrji ios ' Ukdt Md tb, coll 9 tu ihelr rliies. and tem/ns, A NlaleWlile oommf Into senatorial dial riel | ]| , mlltee, divided •Id groups lias i .nbreoMt of the 47 Beautiful Girls hlm i ami dlseuss tirofttema vornimm (hi been formed to keepiohreaH needs of their eltleS'amf towhs In Ihelr areas, Mayor Ungford Is chairman of (Ids (Mth) nrhatnijlul district, m ■ Meeting with the Houston mayor Thursday Will he iXuigfind, M lls P, Walker, city maimger, Bfyi nj Oi D Dnllmeyer. mayor, Hi'enhs n; R. A. Toler; city mitrtngfllV 0 d- •lings and otners. j;; I: to d ' DE GA8PBRI APPROVED ; ROME, pec. C f-(AP)— liaiy'g Chamber of Deputies voted; con fidence in Premier Alcide DeiGfta- peri’s government Saturday bight by a 162-vote majority. !•' If"' !••• ■;: ciitnrcMnerit is -Injpecilons lhl6 fib m vtI ' ! Ik r nlhie^y or nbovo ihnte nt Code, lute Health : , * thfj eating atijm late in announced liege Station ionery i ill t's Chfe | S,pJ ,„4,1 .11 given eat-‘ lie campus ire as fol- Shop ^ . 90 89 88 , 86 ' ntacy 85 ahd 84 82 72 Service Code* ordinance'; es- ge Station; has as a| city _!Drdi- rd of Difertors a<lopted a^kanl- bodies the es- f| the Public . < ubii t Inspections eprcaentatfvM 0un|y Health [|e sod t hd icily Ssedi on these sifl< thi ird ’ea l a tod w loleKiartin smirioH and alsu 1 ilDwr oparalo 'S’lf ami <lwjg have rigidly i tif;#vil nsfirr ahfbliiotillrit ridlegaif .“ir'iWi 1 "*!#"*" H H CM A off Orel. Hutto sin has , |"t»m c rod it for htmld go,to the 1 "II Uhl , tlm.Imve ftoop)'r- with Gib In to I In* Ojffirlsls m\ ... m I A&M who Im city ordl- rhds of Iho uhitb ded h § Hiort ^bto -- !|of , sB ud rest . u >'■ :!!l| l! I: • . j j; 1 ' ■' Music And Applause Fill Gui As Melody Maids Give third n Man r r all Afternoon** ! Work In Hie rtmeht of The Bing, man- I'ufolicnUohN, >nu|H< have in maid. Sin- contact Goodwin mu' $09, l to 'fi / 1 j. 'A By C. C. MUNROE i N, 1 Forty seven beautiful and talen ted ambassadors of song assem bled on the stage of Guion Hall Saturday night and treated a thousand Aggies to more than an hour of the best in popular and traditional music. The Melody Maids of Beaumont, making their third appearance at A&M, thoroughly pleased the en thusiastic crowd. With music which ranged from the light classics to current favorites, the'group more than fulfilled the promises of their advance billings and it was only at the reauest of Miss Eloisy Mil am, the direetbress, that the ap plause was ,cut off between num bers. There were several performanc es which stood out. Nell Ray, a talented ami accomplished soprano; Dolores Warner, a pleasing con tralto; and Pat Mullen, who would be an asset to any hig time band, sit were greeted with applause for their solos such as ii seldom heard in Guion for a non-professional singing group. The curtain ros* on tho 47 Motody Maids, all of whom wero dressed in evening gowns of rod and white, and for more than an hour they filled Guion Hall with their songs. A group of Christmas songs op ened' the program, and as the ‘'Sweet Bells of Christmas,” Oh Come All Ye Faithful,” and "Sil- ;l/ v ent Night, Holy Night” were sung the audience knew that they were in for a fine performance. “The Shepherd’s Christmas Song” was the fourth in the holiday song se ries. ; . Dolores Warner stepped to the microphone for her first solo if the evening, the touching negro spiritual, “Sweet Little Jesus Boy,” The audience showed its apprecia tion at the song’s end by a burst of applause that had to be cut short by Miss Milam. The entire performance was, of necessity, rushed through, for the group was scheduled to sing u sec ond concert at the Annex Tator in the evening. A beautiful arrangement of "White Christmas" stilled the audience, as Miss Milam aceom- parted the Melody Maids at the pifno. Thia wss followed by a abort but appealing aclectlon, "Liullihy." Nell Ray, one of the three so. hjlsts, then sang the grujolou* "Vlr- gin’s Slumber Song.’" Then the mood of tho concert changed abruptly as the ever pop ular "Winter wonderland” waa combined with "Jingle Bella 1 ’ to please the crowd in Guion Hull. Amid the applause which follow ed, Miss Milam announced that some of the dresses which the girls used in their spring festival had been brought along and, after a short intermission, the group yfoui r: 1 1.1 return with their co.stume|k! ,■> • • ★ ifto ■ .to r s vl As the lights were dimmed and the curtains parted, the Melody Maids swung into that portion of their program devoted to- favor ites of today and recent ycarii. The Maids appearing ip c shimmering. ' led dresses spang!' lighted by ever spotlights, sang smooth which were high- songs—"Dream" and “The Touch of Your Hand.” to i f Next the light, swinging ‘‘Mjnn- hatteri Serenade" was .followed: by plauae, but, because of th«: time limitaltf > Purple, Then, changing the popular 1 , to the stmi- cal, NelUtoy, exhibitirtid a mitution a no-encore wai /giftoh. A tango, “Love Is Yott" pro vided a contrast far the number which followed, _jbe haunting "Deep ifrom „ „ classics!, Nell Ray, 4 gracious poise togethefc w|th sewst r* ftt $ki next selection and ; from i tha (top* plauso of the sudl— u 1 dent that the ci whole show. Again tbs if had tb be cut short as to toA- m 1 il I P ,. iL' i. r ■ f ,to. | il micro] of M< SS 1 sii,, at thC! Dekpii MUH' micro] oncy., ij i til 'is ■ k c hot m t had n ' - for 1 The 'Jiar MS lighted h i inn* ifrl .. . 2sS2 U» w.it z th ajbackground voices sang the and Bows.” A intriguing man- 01 girl all com,- own the house" tions; and Bows.” ISmik the audi- deniftd, and Miss again to the rt encore, "Sib- ‘ ■ L n {for lack of Mould proh- for with I Pat her- itNtandimg Ing show. When the concert at , was the nekt se- the stags Milam, the the sudl- ..qutet i*x pis hi rip] to^tha An* ' ' ' 1 |,i| ;i i if •tor